Vydvizhenets

{{Short description|A promotee from a rank-and-file position in the Soviet Union}}

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In the early history of the Soviet Union, a vydvizhenets (выдвиженец)

was someone, especially an ordinary person (worker, peasant, rank-and-file engineer, etc.) promoted to a position of responsibility. Vydvizhentsy were the core of the forming Soviet nomenklatura, described as the New Class. Vydvizhentsy in this sense should be distinguished from people being appointed to various leadership positions for the virtue of being trusted Bolshevik Party members.Sheila Fitzpatrick, Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934, [https://books.google.com/books?id=baIy17SLYk0C&pg=PA252 p. 252]Елена Рохацевич, [https://archive74.ru/news/delegatki-magnitnoy-gory Делегатки Магнитной горы]

Later the term vydvizhenets was applied to persons promoted in ranks by higher leadership and may be translated by the term "protege", and in this meaning it was seen as an evidence of widespread clientelism within Soviet Communist Party elites.Denis Skopin Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia: Defacing the Enemy, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zl9cEAAAQBAJ&pg=SA5-PA30 p. 30] For example, Nikita Khrushchev is recognized as "Stalin's vydvizhenets", i.e., Stalin's promotee.[https://time.com/archive/6620023/russia-vydvizhenets/ RUSSIA: Vydvizhenets], Time, JANUARY 12, 1953 Quote: "Khrushchev is what the Communists call a Vydvizhenets, one who is “pushed forward.” "